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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 53

. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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TWOKILLED AS TRACTION CAR STRIKES AUTO

Earl E. Cope, 44, and Frank Carlson, 64, Painters, Are Victims.

WERE ON WAY TO WRK

Men Drove Directly Into

Path of Interurban, Operator Says.

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Two men were killed today when the car in which they were riding was struck by an interurban in the 5100 block on Madison Ave. Earl E. Cope, 44, of 1209 English Ave. ied at 9:45 a. m., in the City Hospital admitting room. Frank Carlson, 64, 1237 English Ave. died at 11:45 a. m. in the hospital. The car, driven by Mr. Cope, was demolished, and buckets of paint in it were splattered about the scene of the accident. The two men were on their way to a vacant house which they were painting before the wreck occurred. According to Chester Williams, 50, of Greenwood, interurban operator, the men drove their auto out of a line of moving traffic directly in front of the interurban, which was inbound from Seymour. Survivors of Mr. Carlson, besides the wife, Mrs. Rose Carlson, include four sons, Robert, Frank, Charles and William; two daughters Mrs. Leona Betnley and Bernice Rader, all of Indianapolis; three brothers, Oscar and Carl of Attica, and Edward of California, and two sisters, Mrs. William Kirkman and Mrs. Oscar Munson. Mr. Carlson had lived in Indlanapolis 20 years. He was a painter and an interior decorator. Surviving Mr. Cope are the wife, Mrs. Ruth Cope; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Stackhouse, Tulsa, Okla., and 10 children, Mrs. Vera Arthur, Helen, Lorene, Wilma Mae, Ralph, Howard, Erbin, Raymond, Robert and Don-" ald. Three persons were injured, one seriously, when the car in which they were riding early today crashed into a parked car at St. Clair and Illinois Sts. : Donald Dermitt, 23, of 5872 Ross= lyn Ave., driver, suffered a possible concussion of the brain in the accident. Miss Margaret Hibbs, 20, of 2030 N. Deleware St., and Miss Frances Beyer, 21, of 2176 N. Pennsylvania St., were treated for cuts and bruises. Russell West, 25, of 6504 Bellefontaine St., was uninjured. Dermitt was arrested on a charge of failure to have a driver's license. Charles Smith, 16, 2740 Guilford Ave., a pupil at Shortridge High School, was cut and bruised when struck by an automobile today at Central Ave. and 32d St. He was crossing Central Ave. when he was struck by a car driven by Raymond Hinshaw, 27, 2612 Central Ave. Young Smith was taken to Methodist Hospital.

SPENCER GETS BACK

DETECTIVE DUGAN

Detective Sergeant John Dugan, removed from his assignment in Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer's office several weeks ago, was back on duty in the Court House today. He was called in by Chief Morrissey and assigned to headquarters work during the Legislature's investigation of the Wayne Coy assault charges. ~ Dugan was not directly involved in the reports, but was ordered removed from the Prosecutor's office on a charge of failure to report violations of police regulations to proper. authorities. : Commenting on Detective Dugan’s transfer back to Mr. Spenéer’s office today, Chief Morrissey . said the change was made last week by the Safety Board at the Prosecutor's request. * The Chief said, “I objected to it at the time and I still object to it. I don’t think he (Spencer) needs one of our men over there.”

BOB BURNS Says: OLLYWOOD,

don’t believe there's a country in the world where good sportsmanship is appreciated as much as it is over here, People’ll pack a stadium to see a good fighter and they will cheer him as long as he fights fair, but the minute he does anything unsportsman - like the whole audience will ~ rise up in a body and boo him. I had one uncle, my Uncle Orie, who never amounted to very much because he was always gettin’ into fights, but I always admired him because he had such a sense of honor and fair play. A big bully down home picked on Uncle Orie one time and my uncle challenged the big man to a due! with pistols. The big man says, “That wouldn't be fair because I'm so much easier to hit than you are.” Uncle Orie says, “Well, you take a piece of chalk and you mark my size on your body and if I hit outside the chalk mark, it don’t count!” (Copyright, 1937)

Coronation

Londoners at Ritual Crowning Brother.

(Copyright, 1937. by United Press) LONDON, May

Abbey after his many of those who watched were

field, whose love affair caused the, constitutional crisis that elevated | George to the throne. Curbstone onlookers spoke feelingly of the departed Elward. “I admit I would have preferred to see Edward there,” one onlooker said. “George will make an excellent King, but he will never have Edward’s popularity.” A Lancashire woman in the dense throng in the Mall said, “The Duke of Windsor was a fine man. I don't blame him, although I have little sympathy for Mrs. Warfield. However, George will carry on admirably, and his wife and children will make him most popular.”

Didn’t Want Throne A London grocer said, “Mrs. Warfield thought she could become Queen, but I don’t believe Edward really wanted the throne.” An India rubber worker: “Edward should have been here today instead of George. The Duke was unlucky to meet Mrs. Warfield. He should have taken an English girl.” A retired London business man: “The United States and Britain should never be separated. I wish Edward had married an American, provided she was suitable. Nothing would have done more to unite the nations, but it’s pathetic that he

‘became entangled with Mrs. War-

field. : A tobacconist from Glasgow: “The Duke of Windsor was one of tue best. I spent 11 years in the United States and Canada, but I have no sympathy for Mrs. Warfield. An elderly woman outside the Abbey was critical of the Duke. “I have no sympathy for Edward,” she declared. “He is to blame for the whole situation.” Sorry for Windsor Another elderly woman said: “It’s just as well that Mrs. Warfield is not in the royal coach today. but I'm sorry ior the Duke of Windsor, because he was so well loved by everybody and still is.” A sergeant in. the Tank Corps: “My loyalty as a soldier naturally belongs to whomever is King, but I would have preferred Edward. His whole outlook on life is fellowship with his subjects.” “If Edward had been there, the coronation would have been bigger and more cheerful,” said a young girl stenographer outside Westminster Abbey. “George hasn't onethird of his brother's popularity.” Her companion added: “I ‘think the Duke of Windsor got the woman he was intended to have. Edward will be happy with Mrs. Simpson, while George will carry on admirably as King. The whole affair ended for the best.”

U. 3. COURT REJECTS WATER RATE CASE

State Loses in Appeal, Say Local Firm’s Officials.

Attorneys for ‘the Indianapolis Water Co. today received word from the U. S. District Court of Appeals that a petition of the State of Indiana for a rehearing in the water rate case has been denied. A petition filed April 12 by the Attorney General's office asked that the 4-year-old case be reopened. It previously had been indicated by the Attorney General that the Indjana Public Service Commission might carry the case to the U. S. Supreme Court.

ELECTRIC LOAD RISES DURING CORONATION

(Other Radio Details, Page 23)

Many Indianapolis listeners appar-

tion broadcasts beginning at 3 o'clock this morning, for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. reported the pull 2000 kilowatts in excess of normal. The load returned

coronation climax was reached. The increased wattage: was enough, company officials explained to operate something like -40,000 radios. Certainly there were not that many receivers in operation, but listeners used lights as well as radios when they arose earlier than usual.

CHILD, 6, IS BURN HELPING WITH

ED MEAL

Six-year-old Patricia Burkhard

was burned seriously today while trying to help her mother prepare dinner. According to Mrs. Clara Burkhard, 55, 948 W. 31st St., she was preparing dinner when her daughter tried to move one of the pots on the stove. The girl's clothing caught fire. Mrs. Burkhard tore the clothing from the child and called police. They administered first aid and sent Patricia to City Hospital, where it was said she had suffered first and second degree burns.

MICHIGAN MAN KILLED ELKHART, Ind. May 12.—Henry Pollie, 60, Grand Rapids, Mich., was killed instantly today when an zutomobile driven by his chauffeur, Joseph Martin, 25, plunged. from U. S. Highway 25 north of here and

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Windsor’s Memory Stirs |

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Broadcast

In Sylvan Love Retreat

Duke Lounges in Bathrobe Apparently Without Royal Regrets.

By United Press 12.—As King! George rode away from Westminster coronation today. |

MONTS, FRANCE, May Lounging in a bathrobe castle Cande’s ancient which has been converted into an American style bar, the Windsor listened today ceremony in which his t other was { elevated to the throne That could

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Mrs. Wallis Warfield, whose love meant more than empire to him, was with the Duke at the radio which was placed beside the leaping flames of a big fireplace. She was excited, but a spokesman said the Duke seemed: ‘profoundly happy,” that he had “no regrets” over the choice he had made. While rain lashed the windows, they lounged comfortably in the cozy bar listening to the long ceremony from start to finish. Duke Congratulates King As a faithful subject, the Duke sent a congratulatory telegram to the brother on whose head was placed the crown which, as Edward VIII, Windsor never really wore. Outside, the rain heat down, but the Duke was happy and mostly silent, except for an occasional remark to Mrs. Warfield, his equerry, Lieut. Dudley Forewood, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Rogers, the only others present. A member of the entourage, in response to a telephone call, said: “I must. insist the Duke is not sad today. I really believe he is profoundly happy that his brother is being crowned. “Naturally, had the Duke desired the crown, it would have been his, but he made his choice and it is evident to those few who approach him that he has no regrets, but on : (urn to to Page Four)

F.D.R. SUBMITS FLOOD VIEWS

Recommends to Congress Broad Approach to Control Problems.

(Text, Page Five)

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 12.—President Roosevelt today recommended to Congress a broad approach to flood control and drainage legislation, designed to provide the nation with an integrated system of water conservation. Mr. Roosevelt’s views were contained in a. letter accompanying submission to Congress of the recommendations of the Up-stream Engineering Conference held in Washington last year. The President noted that flood control and water conservation problems are not confined to large rivers alone. The President’s brief discussion, confined to general terms, was regarded as of significance in view of pending congressional action on a series of flood control and river regulation measures.

Roosevelt May Stop Here En Route Home

President Roosevelt, returning to Washington from a vacation fishing trip, probably will stop here sometime tomorrow, it was reported today. His train is scheduled to leave Ft. Worth, Tex., at 6 p. m. today.: State officials indicated they had received word from the President's party asking them not to discuss the Chief Executive's probable visit and to drop plans for a reception. It was reported Governor Townsend, State Chairman Cmer 8S. Jackson and other state Democratic leaders might board the train during its brief stop here for an informal talk.

STORM AND COOLER PREDICTED TONIGHT

OURLY TEMPERATURES m... 63 10 a. m. 63 m... 62 11 a. m... 64 m... 61 12 (Noon) 67 m... 62 1pm... 66

Thunderstorms and cooler weather were forecast for tonight by the United States Weather Bureau.

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King George and Queen Elizabeth are shown London, after a recent rehearsal for the coronation. The royal couple was

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Shillalahs Crack Skulls as Irish Riot Against Empire’s New Ruler.

leaving Westminster Abbey,

MOVIE PICKETS TAKE POSTS AT THEATERS

Union Hopes to Enlist Two Million in Boycott.

By United Press L HOLLYWOOD, May ‘12.—Union labor began picketing of theaters in eight cities today while striking movie technicians demanded a boycott of actors who refused to walk out in sympathy. Charles Lessing, leader of the technicians who have the aid of the Committee for Industrial Organization, said 340,000 would picket theaters from coast to coast within a few das. .By the end of the week, he said two million unionists would be boycotting the’ pictures of the nine major producers whose technical employees are striking for wage adjustments and the preferential shop. Lessing appealed to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, one of the strongest labor organizations in the country, for a boycott of actors and film companies.

MARY, BUDDY HOPE TO WED IN 5 WEEKS

(Copyright. 1937. bv United Press)

HOLLYWOOD, May 12.—Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers plan to be married “in about five weeks.” Mary, stepping off the train on her return from London, announced “our work has interferred long enough; we'll be married just as soon as Buddy finishes work on his present picture.”

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almost mobbed by enthusiastic crowds which broke through police lines as their Majesties were leaving

By United Press

ONDON, May 12. —Aniicibative the possibility that King George VI might be too tired tonight to broaticast a speech to “my beloved people,” his address was recorded by radio stations participating in the

broadcast.

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The Duchess of Hamilton was the only woman in Westminster Abbey who wore an artificial fur. An ardent antivivisectionist, she long has refused 0 Wear any sort of real fur.

DUBLIN, May 2. Crowds rioted today as the Irish Republican Army demonstrated against the coronation of George VI. Pistol shots rang out and police swung clubs lustily in an attempt to keep order. Dozens were injured. Thousands participated in the disorders and police set upon the demonstrators. Shillaiahs cracked down on the skulls of protestors. Windows were broken in 20 shops selling coronation souvenirs. ‘Two youths wearing coronation emblems were beaten badly.

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HE demonstrators said their parade was meant to ‘“repudiate the coronation of an English King as King of Ireland.” President Eamon de Valera appeared . before the Dail and, speaking in - Celtic, moved the second reading of the bill on the constitution. He denied that any question of dictatorship was concerned in the proposed contsitution and added

that “one thing is clear—that the people are the masters. They will elect the President and give him defined powers and will give Parliament defined powers as well.” ” n ” IRMINGHAM, England, May 12.—A half dozen students who made disparaging remarks regarding the coronation of King George were ducked in the pond at Chamberlain Square by fellow students today. > # =n»

OME, May 12.—Not a single line about the coronation of King George VI or ary other British news event appared in Italian newspapers today. Only those who read German and French papers were aware of the coronation.

Local journals, however, devoted considerable space to the Duke of Windsor-Mrs, Wallis Warfield romance.

Sir Hugh Walpole, British novelist, who has just been knighted by King George VI, joined the staff of the United Press in London today for the coronation of his monarch. In the following dispatch Sir Hugh gives his impressions of the coronation ceremony as he saw and heard it in Westminster Abbey.

By SIR HUGH WALPOLE World Copyright, 1937, by United Press 1 Zon May 12.—I was determined on my honesty to See if I found this thing to be, in these day, the sham sentiment of an outworn tradition.

For times are not as they were. As I dressed on this dark, foggy morning and looked out of my window a little mournfully and with that odd misgiving of apprehension which coronations seem so easily to arouse, I reminded myself of these changed times. “Here,” I said to the frosty dawn across the pain shrouding

the palace, “is the only survival in Europe of an ancient oath declared in patriotism as the echo of an old feudal act of service. Is

it not nonsense, seen in the light

of these changed and changing times? If I think so, I shall say so.” : s s 2 OR 30 years or so I've been called a tory, a reactionary, a romantic. I am neither a tory nor a reactionary, but I am romantic if by that term you mean that the past has some good claims on the present. If you refuse to believe that, then all real virtues arrived in the world for ‘1e first time in Russia in March, 1917. So most ardently I was determined today not to be betrayed by sentiment. Then out of the fog,

safe in the dean’s yard, propelled

‘even at 5:45 o'clock in the morning .by some of the most polite

gentlemen in Europe, up a long, narrow corkscrew staircase between thick, gray walls—and I suddenly emerged in the ancient battlemented triforium and looked straight down to the King’s chair of state. There below me in a splash of amber light, solitary, austere, indifferent, was the chair. I had the oddest—and I suppose most arrogant—sensation as I looked at it that it was aware of my gaze. We seemed to be alone in the Abbey, the chair and I. ” n ” T was as though some of my early morning scepticism was being now immediately challenged. The chair, so solitary, so indifferent, brought that constant puzzle of entity of time back to me—“I'm timeless,” that chair said. “You may say that what has happened (Turn fo Page Five)

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The scene in the Abbey

GAY LONDON ALL COLOR, GLITTER

53 Nations Represented in Resplendent Parade . To Abbey.

By United Press LONDON, May 12.—London’s vast throng, representing all nations of

streets of this metropolis early today to see the empire's greatest festival—the coronation of a new King. The patience of the crowds was

tion ceremonies began with the appearance of the first of the five processions. In the carriages were the more distant members of the royal family such as the King’s great-aunts, Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and representatives of foreign powers. Fifty-three nations were repre-

Afghanistan to Yugoslavia. The crowd, glad to relieve the boredom of waiting, cheered as the royalties in their scarlet robes, and the foreign representatives in court dress or national uniforms passed.

U. S. Delegation Cheered

The carriage containing the United States’ representatives, James W. Gerard, Gen. John J. Pershing, and Admiral Hugh Rodman, got a special cheer. Gerard wore coutt dress with knee breeches, while Gen. Pershing and Admiral Rodman were in uniform. When the second procession emerged from Buckingham Palace, the crowds again went mad. This procession was composed of 11 carriages carrying the British and Dominion prime ministers, and the representatives of India and Burma, and colonial rulers. The first carriage contained Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and Mrs. Baldwin. Due to retire from office immediately after the coronation, Baldwin's ruddy face beamed on the crowds as they yelled “Good Old Stan.” Both Baldwin and his wife were in court dress. An escort of mounted police followed their carriage.

CHILD HURT FATALLY; PARENTS AT ABBEY

By United Press LONDON, May 12.—While her parents were in Westminster Abbey, where her father was participating in the coronation ceremony, Charmion “Joan Hamilton-Russell, 4, daughter of the Hon. Augustus Hamilton-Russell, granddaughter of Lord Boyne and grandniece of the Earl of Harewond, was injured fatally today. The child’ fell down an 80-foot elevator shaft in the house of Tord

Beardsted at Carleon Gardens, to which she had been taken to see

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King'end Queen Receive Incredible Expression of Loyalty as They Bow to Rain-

Before Palace.

O TALK AWAITED

Jeweled Peeresses, World Diplomats Mingle With Workers’ Re Gala Abbey Services.

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BULLETINS

by United Press)

LONDON, May 12.—King George VI, crowned and consecrated in a centuries-old ritual at Westminster Abbey, dedicated himself

the British Empire and to the

cause of world “peace and progress,” in his first radio address to

lace. .

(Editorial, cartoons and Gen. Johnson, Page 14; other stories and

By WEBB MILLER LONDON, May 12.—George VI, minster Abbey as ruler over the British Empire of 500 mil« lion souls, covering one-fourth of the earth’s habitable sur

crowned in West-

of Buckingham Palace today

with his Queen, Elizabeth, and received an almost incredible

his subjects.

The thousands massed around the Palace raised a thun-

e deep-throated, there shrilly

crescendo. A driving rain made no difference to those who had waited below, some of them fo The new King and Queen were joined on the balcony by, the Queen Mother, Queen Mary, the Princess Elizabeth, 11-year-old heir to the throne, and her little sister, Margaret

24 hours.

~The ovation was the stirring climax for the people of a coronation celebration probably unprecedented in history, leaving only the King’s first speech by radio to the nation,

crowning, to complete the day, is brow in Westminster Abbey:

four hours before, making him the 40th sovereign of England since William the Conqueror and in more modern times, | ruler of the British Empire.

was unforgettable. From a

vantage pos in Ape Triforium, or raised platform of: the

¢nave, I watched 7700 persons taking part in an 11-century-old ceremony of pageantry, splendor and riotous colon Royalty, the nobility, dignitaries of all lands and

| chosen representatives of the

English working classes took part. From my seat, I could see little Margaret Rose fidgeting under the excitement and strain of trying to be a good little girl; the dignified, stately grandmother trying

to restrain her with occasional arched ‘eyebrows, ani the venerable archbishop of Canterbury anointing and crowning the King and Queen with age-old ritual. At the moment when the Cosmo Gordon Lang, archbishop of Canter bury, anointed the ng's palms, breast and head with hallowed oil, he became consecrated to God, King of Great Britain and Ireland the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India. Archbishop Traces Cross on George The anointing started ‘at 5:01 a, m. (Indianapolis Time) .and at 5:14 the archbishop reverently traced the crosses on the King’s person. At 5:30 a. m. the archbishop placed the crown of Sf. Edward, glittering with priceless jewels, .on the King’s head and the assembly broke into a vast, shouted roar of the ancient cry, “God save the King.” At 5:52 a. m. the Queen’s plat inum, jeweled crown, smaller than the King’s, with the great Kohinoor diamond gleaming in front, was placed on the head of the former Scottish commoner by the arche bishop. | Four peeresses held a rich canopy: over her head. When she was crowned, all the peeresses donned their coronets. Up to 7 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) 7066 persons had been given first . aid for fainting injuries in the crush along the coronation route, Eightys seven were taken to hospitals. There was a moment of awkwards ness in the crowning of the King, The archbishop turned the crown in his hands, hesitating and puzzled to find the front. When he got it on, it was askew, sitting rakishly on the left side of the King’s head. 103 Guns Boom Salute to New King Outside, the royal salute of 103 guns boomed from the Tower of (Turn to Page Three)

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